
Shirley Jones
ActressBorn 1934Active 2006–2016
Career at a glance
2Hallmark films
1 at Christmas
Weirdness3.5 / 10
Mostly standard issue
Everything Shirley has done for Hallmark, from Hidden Places (2006) right through to The Irresistible Blueberry Farm (2016).
Follow & about Shirley
- From
- Charleroi
- Married to
- Marty Ingels
Awards & honours
- Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress · 1961
- star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
Shirley Mae Jones is an American actress and singer. In her six decades in show business, she has starred as wholesome characters in a number of musical films, such as Oklahoma! (1955), Carousel (1956), and The Music Man (1962). She won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for playing a vengeful prostitute in Elmer Gantry (1960). She played the lead role of Shirley Partridge, the widowed mother of five children, in the musical situation-comedy television series The Partridge Family (1970–1974), which co-starred her real-life stepson, David Cassidy, son of Jack Cassidy.
